Running commentary -- Sherlock 1.02

[yakalskovich]

I am still catching up with things. After all the blogs in German, I now arrived at 'Sherlock' and will do a running commentary again. Beware the spoilers!

• I like how she doesn't scream, just staaaaaaare. What a prettily subverted trope.
• I feel that Cumberbatch!Sherlock with his coat, scarf and very quiet expression has the makings of an iconic image, just like the old one with pipe and deerstalker.
• 42, seen in a mirror or through a glass door? What?
• Everybody seems to assume, at first, that Holmes and Watson might be more than friends. Especially people who knew Holmes before. Why is that? (I do find it amusing, of course, especially in view of the notorious slash potential of the original...)
  
• Pretentious van Coon is totally exposed by having Dan Brown in his pile of books. I hope the bloke won't sue the Beeb for i
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• Dan Brown. Symbols. Perhaps that book didn't stand for the banker's poor taste in actual culture (as opposed to posh, blank apartment) after all, but for his (however shallow) interest in that kind of cyphers?
• By now, Watson is already interpreting Holmes to the world, and collecting his money when he's above that sort of piffling thing again.
• One of the books the journo and the banker have in common is 'Freakonomics'!
• Is she Mary already? Please, Beeb, don't kill her off the way Arthur Conan Doyle did, without as much as a second thought!
• Well, her name is Sarah, and they don't really rename people, so there is hope for her...
• Yay Sarah with a giant Chinese crossbow bolt FTW! I like her. I hope they get to keep her...
• This is the kind of exotic melodrama the original was ripe with -- mysterious Chinese gangs and dramatic hijinks!